Mineur, Henri (1899-1954)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3865. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Born in Lille, France, worked at the Paris Observatory, discovered the retrograde rotation of the system of globular clusters around the Galaxy, due to the fact that they are stationary while the Sun moves prograde. Discovered the error in the period-luminosity law for Cepheid variable stars, on which the cosmological distance scale is based. Mineur founded and was the first director of the Insti...

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